Sentences with phrase «religious orthodoxy»

The resurgence of religious orthodoxy and the revival of traditional religious supernaturalism and institutionalism are further evidences of the struggle for reassurance in an age of disintegrated values.

The renewed emphasis on religious orthodoxy has been associated with a vigorous upsurge in theological education, in the growth of church - controlled schools, and in concern for religion in public education.

Bettany's Darwin is not someone who falls away from religious orthodoxy because such questioning comes easily to him, but because his scientific investigations have radically altered his way of looking at the world, whether he likes it or not.

Yet human experience does have an important, though subsidiary, role in religious orthodoxies.

None of you are being forced to observe religious orthodoxy.

Posner suggests that this lack is unfortunate: those (like John Finnis) who «derive their moral codes from religious orthodoxy make a tactical mistake» when they make secular reason the only legitimate basis for moral claims.

Rather, those who engage in materialist activities (Christians and non-Christians alike) more often do so in the spirit of permissiveness, not in an antagonism against religious orthodoxy.

The Inquisition was the product of a period when religious orthodoxy and unity were seen as paramount.

While faith today is treated as little more than a lifestyle option, in the past religious orthodoxy was equated with social order and security and thus became an important concern for any regime.

His assertion that mainstream religious orthodoxy presents a standard too high for ordinary folk is dispiriting, although nothing in today's religious landscape refutes it.

Landes, a Boston University historian who founded its Center for Millennial Studies, argues that orderly public life depends upon religious orthodoxy, that is, the integration of chiliastic and secular time that embeds messianic expectations within the liturgical calendar that accompanies ordinary human life.

Growing up in the 1930s in Columbus, Ohio — no home then of aggressive religious orthodoxy — I regularly felt the coercion of the dominant Protestant mentality.

At the outset sociology as criticism was aimed against traditional notions of the absolute givenness of social life which were legitimated by religious orthodoxy.

No organization has the power to enforce a clear religious orthodoxy.

Revolting against the growing religious orthodoxy she became a pioneer in Indian experimental video, shadow plays, and ephemeral wall drawings.

«Unorthodox does not comment on Jewish religious orthodoxy or critique it, but takes its inspiration from the legacy of progressive Jewish thought, in particular the Jewish tradition of dialogue and debate,» said Jens Hoffmann.

The pro-life position, whether or not it is based on religious orthodoxy, is more ethically highly involved than my own tenet of unconstrained access to abortion on demand....

All religious orthodoxy appears to him as a kind of mental zombism, as in this strange passage: «Devout Catholics, orthodox Jews, fundamentalist Protestants, or Shiite Muslims... are told what to do and they do it.

In the postwar era of weakening, religious orthodoxy was always on the defensive.

His articles over a period of years exercised great influence on youthful minds and made many converts from the modernists and Muslim communists — but very few from the Muslim nationalists, since they belonged to religious orthodoxy and were not inclined to listen to the young Maudoodi.

Freed from the restraints of tribalism and religious orthodoxies, and not yet aware of the imperatives of globalism and the eco-system, modern individualism can manifest itself in massively self - centered behavior.

The sense that each young man is a new unfallen Adam is deep in 19th - century American consciousness, abhorrent as this is to religious orthodoxy.

Religious orthodoxy, concerned about certitude, may deny the dynamic nature of metaphor.

Religious orthodoxy» the tradition of long - standing faith communities» embeds the sacred time of redemption in the rhythm of human life.

It can lead to sheer opportunism without principles or terms, or to an ecclesiastically dominated society in which only those who share the religious orthodoxy control the pattern of the common life.

The resurgence of religious orthodoxies has brought to the fore the issue of the religious ground of democracy and its role in social policy.

That assumption of objectivity is a great temptation to us, whether the claim is given in the name of religious orthodoxy or in the name of technological certitude.

Habermas's assertions overlap considerably with those of Bellah, especially with regard to the privatization of religious expression, the decline of religious orthodoxy, and the erosion of religious institutions.

The religious orthodoxy tells us the God gave us a free will so we would be responsible for our own lives... it's time the flock used it.

Nancy Ammerman of Hartford Seminary said the evidence suggests that there is an inverse relationship between female leadership and religious orthodoxy.

Nevertheless, while educational efforts that seek to go beyond nationalist and religious orthodoxies could foster greater appreciation for the myriad different cultural contributions to human civilization, such steps alone are unlikely to be sufficient to achieve wider geopolitical goals.

Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Zed Books, pp 176, # 27.95 hbk / # 8.95 pbk

No one has a right to demand that science textbooks conform to some religious orthodoxy on environtmentalism.

The debate over reasonable accommodation, religious orthodoxy in the modern age, and polite discourse on tolerance (a word I've come to dislike intensely) seems to have flared up in response to demographic changes in Quebec and Canada.